It’s been a wild year in the jungle of politics, so I think it’s only right that we go back and look at what has happened over the past year.
The Stute
The School of Engineering & Science (SES) is forming a new academic support and advising center called the Center for Student Success (CSS).
Let’s talk about autoimmune diseases, a category of chronic conditions that affects approximately 50 million Americans. This means that 1 in 5 people in the United States are diagnosed with one of the 100+ types of autoimmune diseases during their lifetime.
12 hours. 3 meals. 87 student organizations. One $140,000 deficit. If there is a narrative that can be drawn throughout the semesterly budget meeting held on November 18, it is one of excess.
At exactly 9:30 p.m. on November 27, 2018, on the patio outside of Walker Gym, the Stevens holiday tree was lit at the Entertainment Committee’s (EC) Fifth Annual Holiday Tree Lighting event.
Amidst finals season, seven senior students continue to work on their senior design project: Site Zero Energy Manhattan Yacht Club. The senior design team, named Blue Liberty Engineering, consists of three Mechanical Engineering students, Adrian Leszczynski, Eva Westphal, and Tage Paray, two Civil Engineering students, Johanna Pluymers and Sarah Hoogenboom, and two Engineering Management students, Johan Geldart and Brianna Perez.
“My dissertation topic is how to help STEM students persist through their undergraduate programs,” said Leo D. Pedraza, Stevens’ new Assistant Dean and Director of Student Life.
The runoff election between Mark Krupinski with Alex Murtagh and Jason Chlus with Ryan Tom closed this past Sunday, November 25, at 7 p.m.
A high point of my career, and faith in science, was a cosmology workshop I bulled my way into in 1990.
For my final column of the semester, you may be expecting me to reflect on my first semester of college. Initially, that was my idea as well, so I sat down to write and tried to think about the past three and a half months.

